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A Modest Proposal

By Jonathan Swift

2019-05-09 17:53:57

A Modest Proposal is a satirical essay written anonymously in 1729 by the Irish writer and activist Jonathan Swift to protest the government's policies (and his countrymen's heartless attitudes) towards the poor. It remains today, a classic o ... Read more

A Modest Proposal is a satirical essay written anonymously in 1729 by the Irish writer and activist Jonathan Swift to protest the government's policies (and his countrymen's heartless attitudes) towards the poor. It remains today, a classic of the form, and the model for thousands of "modest proposals" published in the centuries since.

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File size19.044 KB
Print pages48
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-06-01
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781605977270
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Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub, A...

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